We’re recent off a charming weekend that included Scottie Scheffler successful in fashion and Anthony Kim displaying indicators of life. Nonetheless, there may be extra information this Monday morning. A brand new Titleist golf membership simply hit the USGA’s conforming checklist—it seems to be some form of TSR mini driver or possibly a biggie fairway wooden.
USGA pics aren’t the very best for figuring out scale, however the photograph now we have suggests some form of REALLY “mini” variation of a TSR Sequence Driver, with similarities to the Titleist TSR4 being the obvious. You possibly can see the 2 flippable weights to offer CG change – larger flight with extra spin within the again, flatter, decrease spinning within the entrance.
The USGA lists loft at 13° solely. So once more, there’s only a sliver of perception as as to if this will likely be a “mini” driver or a brand new fairway addition to the household.
A Little bit of Backstory
It’s honest to say this itemizing is an attention-grabber. Whereas TaylorMade at present has the mini market all to itself, we all know there was some curiosity inside Titleist a few shorter-shaft driver that’s simpler to hit or at the very least simpler to hit straight.
Titleist’s Director of Participant Promotions, JJ Van Wezenbeeck, isn’t afraid to experiment (he’s a little bit of a mad scientist within the membership world). Relationship again to final summer time, we’re conscious of some prototypes that have been principally TSR1 heads with a good quantity of hotmelt added to the pinnacle. These flew absurdly straight with not an entire lot of distance loss.
On the time, Titleist considering was it didn’t make sense to sacrifice the advantages of a bigger head dimension for one thing that was going to be hit nearly solely off the tee.
That mentioned, considering constantly evolves. Is Titleist shopping for in on the thought of a sub-400cc driver, or is that this TSR extra akin to an outsized fairway wooden – a TSR2+ on steroids? You realize, one thing you possibly can hit reliably off a fairway.
With out something to offer scale (would it not kill the USGA so as to add a greenback invoice to its pictures), it’s exhausting to decipher a lot. The inevitable in-hand pics ought to present extra element.
That mentioned, the USGA lists the marking as:
HOSEL: (membership quantity/letter)
2 is a quantity and W is a letter. Simply saying …
Sources at Titleist declined to offer any particular element aside from to say it’s a prototype.
Have Your Say
Are you curious about the mini driver class? And in that case, what are you extra fascinated with, a reasonable to barely undersized driver (like the present Mini Driver), or one thing nearer to an outsized fairway wooden that’s nonetheless serviceable off the deck (like TaylorMade’s SLDR mini)?
We’d like to know.
